RUSSIA

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16981, 18 April 1917, Page 5

RUSSIA

Router's Telegrams. PETRO'GRAD, April 16. General Kuropatkin, Governor-general of Turkestan, and four other generals have been arrested at Tashkent by order of the local branch of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates, and charged with distributing arms to the Russians for defence in the event of an attack by natives. General Kuropatkin has telegraphed to the Premier asking for the command of a grenadier corps at the front. The General Congress of the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates from all parts of Russia has passed a resolution appealing to the democracy to support the Provisional Government so long as it continues to consolidate and develop the gains of the revolution and does not base its foreign policy on aspirations for territorial expansion. RASPUTIN'S REMAINS. BURNED BY MILITIA. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, April 16. Strange details are being circulated of the reburial of the murdered monk Rasputin. After his body had been flung into the Neva the Russian Court commanded its recovery, and it was reburied with great solemnity at Tsarskoe-Selo, where it is currently believed bis spirit is as potent as Rasputin had been in life. Tie Provisional Government, fearing lest his body should become the centre of a mischievous cult, ordered its reburial in Veborg Forest. Four trustworthy men were given the task of removing it on a motor lorry, which stuck in a snowdrift. Ine local militia arrived and insisted on explanations. Finally they made a bonfire and Rasputin's remains were consumed.